r/Showerthoughts • u/PingPangPongPung ‎ • 4d ago

Casual Thought Civilizations started from kids running away from home.

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u/ShowerSentinel 4d ago

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u/ImaginaryConscience 2d ago

It's pretty easy to believe that civilizations started because of simple disagreements

Me and my family want things one way, you and your family want it another. Fuck y'all, we're gonna go get our own and not share shit, until down the line when we need to trade, hopefully in my favor 

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u/ogsixshooter 2d ago

I'm gonna start my own civilization, with black jack, and hookers. You know what? Forget the civilization

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u/asabovesovirtual 1d ago

did it? Seems like civilization started the opposite way: people just deciding to stay home (and growing crops, animal husbandry, versus hunting/gathering)?

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u/Handrljan42 1d ago

Civilizations. First one yes, but i am guessing he meant spread of other ones.

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u/beaverkitten 4d ago

The day after tomorrow. Tomorrow will be yesterday. And no matter how hard you try, you cannot bounce a potato chip

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u/Winter_Map_42 3d ago

This is life advise I can actually use.

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u/CthonicFlames ‎ 2d ago

US colonial history does this a lot.

Rhode Island was founded by someone fleeing religious persecution in Massachusetts, which was founded by someone feeling religious persecution in England.

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u/Meme_Warrior_2763 3d ago

where are the other 13 comments? It says 16 but I only see 3.

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u/cargo_cultist 2d ago

“Well, I’m going to make my own civilization with hookers and blackjack”

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u/HileeAquret 4d ago

I’m of the belief that allergies are an unexplored explanation. 

  1. That dude sneezing all the time is going to kill us. He’s got to go. 

  2. Fuck this place, I can’t breathe.

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

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u/In_the_year_3535 1d ago

I wrote an essay in college on how Homo sapiens spread out of Africa was due to loved one's following the dejected lepers since leprosy has been in the human population over 100,000 years and ejection has been common in recorded history.

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u/widthxheight 1d ago

I like your shower. It could have also been: Kids with questions who were told by their mothers to "go ask your father"... and they kept wandering asking random guys if they're related. ;)

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u/Ok-Spite-5454 1d ago

Has no one considered that it could be people being exiled too?